The Lucknow Sentinel, 1988-07-13, Page 3•
Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, July 13,1983—Page 3
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their own planes while two others rented
planes for the mission) .
More pictures of Lois were splattered all
over town, Lucknow and some of the outly-
ing areas and major media sources carried
the story of the disappearance.
By Wednesday night, the town police con-
curred with the O.P.P. and it was decided to
make the case a joint forces operation.
Early Thursday morning a special iden-
tification team from Mount Forest plus local
detectives were combing the Nelson Street
home as well as Lois' car for clues as to her
whereabouts.
A canine unit from Mount Forest also
came down and was used in the search.
By this time a Toronto psychic had been
called in, although no details of her findings
have been made public to date.
In addition, a private investigator from
Toronto, Douglas Hopkinson, offered his
services and has been working in close con-
junction with the police on the case; no
details of his investigation are available to
the public at this time although as far as the
family and police are concerned, no leads
have been reported.
A 'reward of $10,000 was also offered by the
family for any information leading to the
recovery of Lois.
Search co-ordinator Caryn Nicolson also
made a public appeal for anyone with any
information at all to please come forward.
"The police are prepared to offer you the
protection of confidentiality if needed," she
said.
Friday brought about a change in the loca-
tion of search headquarters.
Headquarters moved to KTTPS school
According to Caryn, a larger and cooler
location was needed to mount what was to
be the most massive block by block, bush by
bush search instituted to date of the whole
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stopping."
He encouraged the business people of
Lucknow to "get used to serving tourists".
"Don't think small just because you're a
small town. A small place can think big
too. Think of Lucknow as a tourist centre
as well as a service centre for the surroun-
ding communities and the tourists will
start to stop here. Have ice, souvenirs and
other tourist stuff for sale. Make visitors
feel comfortable here and they'll come
back."
Other suggestions that came up during
the discussion included the development of
a local information pamphlet that lists the
services, restaurants, accomodations and
other businesses operating in the area.
"Get a thousand of these printed and let
the businesses hand them out," Mr.
McKessock added to the discussion. "Tell
people what you have to offer."
He also suggested that Lucknow con-
sider advertising in the Grey -Bruce tourist
brochure produced each year. There are
100,000 of the full -colour pamphlets printed
each year and they are offered at all the
tourist information booths in the area of
the province as well as mailed out to
anyone soliciting information about this
region. •
At this point in the meeting, it was
discovered that Lucknow doesn't even ap-
pear on the map included in this year's
brochure.
After a brief moment of embarrasment,
Mr. McKessock answered with, "then it's
about time Lucknow got involved and let
people know you're here".
"I'm very glad you pointed that out," he
said in reply. "Someone in this community
should be on the phone screaming at us."
Following alively discussion on what the
next step may be for the local Business
Association, it was decided that the promo-
tion of tourism in this area is a good idea
with a great deal of potential.
The Business Association decided to
schedule a follow-up meeting for Monday,
July 18, starting at 8 p.m. in the Town Hall.
Anyone in the community interested in
helping with the development of a local
tourist association is urged to attend and
bring their ideas.
Donna Sue Errington, who chaired
Wednesday's meeting, thanked Mr.
McKessock for his suggestions and added
that she hoped his ideas could be put to
good use in the near future.
area including a 20 mile radius surrounding
Kincardine.
Bruce Giles from the Bruce County Board
of Education offered Kincardine Township
Tiverton Public School for the new
headquarters.
It wasn't long before the former staff
room was being used to run an efficient, ac-
curate and extremely organized search for
the missing girl.
As volunteers dropped in(about 120 in
all)they were paired in teams of two and
given one full block to search. They were in-
structed to knock on each door asking if
anyone had seen or heard anything unusual
as well as to gain permission to search the
grounds and any other buildings on the
premises.
One of the co-ordinators, family friend
Lorna Barrett, said each team was in-
striicted to come back to headquarters after
their block was done to report any kind of
lead and also to have a refreshment before
taking another block to search.
Mrs. Barrett said the volunteers were
receiving tremendous support from the
public and no one to date had been denied
access to any properties.
She also commented on the support many
local citizens and merchants had offered in
terms of supplying the headquarters with of-
fice supplies and refreshments for
volunteers.
The printing for almost 7000 flyers depic-
ting a description and photo of Lois for the
mail was also donated free of charge.
Lois' Aunt Jean also commented on the
tremendous support the family has received
from Kincardine and the surrounding area.
"We just can't express our thanks enough
to the people who have opened up their
hearts to us," she said, "you live in a
wonderful area."
After an intense search which lasted all
weekend and failed to turn up any new
developments, the search headquarters was
moved to Lucknow where it is now operating
out of an appliance store on the main street.
However, the physical search won't be as
intense as it has been.
Trying to reconstruct her movements
In an interview with The News Monday
morning(July 11) Sgt. Doug Proctor from
Kincardine police, who is heading up the in-
vestigation with the help of the O.P.P, said
the family is realizing they can only in-
stitute so many searches.
"We will be continuing our efforts by talk-
ing to the family and friends and trying to
reconstruct her movements on Sunday," he
said.
Sgt. Proctor said no new leads have come
in at this time and a search by a special div-
ing team from Mount Forest on Saturday
failed to turn up any new leads.
Sgt. Proctor said they are currently work-
ing on eliminating the prints of friepds and
family members from Lois' car to see if any
of the prints taken by the identification team
will be of any use in the investigation.
When asked whether or not the police are
suspecting foul play in the case, Sgt. Proctor
said "it can't be ruled out."
Anyone who has any information which
could be of help in the investigation is advis-
ed to call the police at 396-3434.
Lois Hanna is described as being a white
female, 25 years -old, 5'4" tall, 120 lbs., with
short brown curly hair and brown eyes.
OCHALSH
by Kae Webster
Donald Simpson attended the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of
Canada, June 5 to 10, as commissioner for
the Presbytery of Bruce -Maitland.
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